Re: Plenty of blame to go around

Layer 8

Failures of contraception are more often failure at the user level than the hardware level. Most of them can be 100% effective if done correctly but split condoms, failure to withdraw, missed pills and messed up rhythm dates are all just user error.

Re: Lazy-arsed, slovenly journalism.

Technically very easy

Given the short block periods a false positive isn't that much of a problem and you don't even need to block the game from the start. Just wait for the game to start and watch for spikes in streaming content then advertise a route to null0 into your network. Drop the route after 90 mins and wait for the next game.

It is more effective to drop traffic during the match than before because if you do it before the punters have time to find an alternative - watching it legally becomes a lot more attractive when you have missed the end of a few games.

The significance here is the fact it is IP rather than host name blocking - it's a blunter tool but harder to circumvent because you can use an alternate DNS provider but you can't use a different routing table.

Re: the code was updated to check if rttMAX was equal to or less than zero

DST (and indeed timezones) are not a change to the time, just a change to the way that the time is displayed; for the reason you mentioned and many more. The US and many other places change their DST on differing dates and many places don't do it at all.

Time is expressed in UTC, which is essentially very similar to Greenwich Mean Time. Daylight saving in the UK (BST; British Summer Time) is simply a display of UTC+1 so the systems comparing time clocks would still store and compare UTC to UTC. The difference with a leap second is that it is actually a change to UTC.

When "the clocks change" normally it is just the function of displaying the clock rather than the internal clock that changes except in these very rare and specific cases.

Re: the code was updated to check if rttMAX was equal to or less than zero

DST (and indeed timezones) are not a change to the time, just a change to the way that the time is displayed; for the reason you mentioned and many more. The US and many other places change their DST on differing dates and many places don't do it at all.

Time is expressed in UTC, which is essentially very similar to Greenwich Mean Time. Daylight saving in the UK (BST; British Summer Time) is simply a display of UTC+1 so the systems comparing time clocks would still store and compare UTC to UTC. The difference with a leap second is that it is actually a change to UTC.

Haha

All you folks talking about 800 a day rates are dreaming - you can pick up Windows support chimps really cheaply so you don't have to pay more than £150 for one. You don't even need to pay VAT as they don't earn enough to be VAT registered. No matter how good you think you are there is a paper MCSE who will undercut you.

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The referendum was based on outright lies from the leave camp so the result is close enough to treat with the distain it deserves. The majority of the electorate didn't vote to leave so let's just get on with our lives and start sending proper politicians to the EU parliaments rather than cockhammers like Garage.

Hacked

Wait, if everyone's credentials are already on pastebin then perhaps they want to stop hackers bccing all mail to nefarious destinations while they set to work resetting passwords on more valuable accounts.

Hey, here's an idea

We should have a female Bond, or maybe a black Bond? Oh, wait, that's already been harped on about every time they do the casting for a new movie. It's worse than when the Doctor regenerates and people start going on about equality in the way that people only do to appologise for white male privilege.

I don't need to see fictional characters rebranded with a new race or a new gender just to balance things up, I want to see new and interesting characters given screen time regardless of their race or gender. Don't give me a black Bond give me a black character in an action movie that is as good or better than the Bond franchise.

AAA

Re: Get out of my country corps

People get mobile phones that are subsidised but tied to a particular network so why wouldn't they get a washing machine that is subsidised so long as you use a certain brand of detergent from a certain supplier. The proles tend to be strapped for cash on large purchases but willing to sign up to pay slightly over the odds on the weekly costs a bit like buying stuff on the never never.

Your MP is an idiot...

Your MP is an idiot so won't be able to understand the nuances of this double failure and how it is significant in terms of national infrastructure (and national security) and economic prosperity. The only way he will care enough to ask questions in the house is if you use your considerable specialist knowledge to write to him or her and explain how this sort of thing really shouldn't be able to happen. If two key sites can go offline so easily imagine if sites were taken offline as part of a coordinated attack to coincide with some activity that caused major economic harm to the UK - it would make Brexit look like child's play.

The only way to get your representatives in Government to investigate this is to show them you care and why they should care too.

Yoinks!

"People who don't get the point of wearable tech saying that wearable tech has no point."

Sales have dropped because market of those who want it and can afford it has been saturated. Unless price drops there won't be much traction until the next generation and even then the refresh cycle will be longer than a cellphone because a lot of people aren't used to the idea of a refresh cycle on their watch.

Wearable tech isn't about telling the time, it's about seeing messages discretely without getting your phone out of your pocket; it's about haptic alerts; it's about health data; it's about turning on your porch light with Siri when you get home late with a sleeping toddler in your arms; it's about paying for your morning coffee when you forgot your wallet and of course it's about making phone calls on your watch like Dick Tracy

Oh come on

This is normally a forum for smart people. The expressed will of the people was a vote of a minority of the electorate and it was largely based on the blatant campaign lies of the leave camp.

Parliament has been advised that a minority of the electorate have a wish to leave the EU however this desire should be tempered against a need to ascertain what sort of deal we can get and if it is in the interest of the people and meets the terms of the deal offered by the leave camp.

If the government cannot obtain freedom from EU 'laws', curtailing of free movement (while protecting status of British migrants abroad), £350m extra a week for the NHS and full and tarrif free access to the single market then the deal does not have the mandate of that minority of the electorate because that is what they voted for.